To find the area of a hemisphere we need to calculate the area of half of a sphere with the same radius and add the area of the great circle.
Surface Area of a Hemisphere [0.8em]
A=1/2(4π r^2)+π r^2
We first need to calculate the radius. To do so we will consider the given fact that the diameter is the radius two times.
d=2r
We can substitute 17 inches for d in this formula and solve for the radius r.